Ing Loong Yang joins Akin Gump in Hong Kong
08 April 2022
Ing Loong Yang has joined Akin Gump as a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Yang, who joins the firm from Latham & Watkins, is a renowned international arbitration and cross-border disputes practitioner in the city. He has extensive international arbitration and complex commercial litigation experience in Asia, particularly in relation to cross-border disputes involving parties in greater China. He handles complex, sensitive matters involving shareholder and joint venture disputes, technology and other licensing disputes, commercial criminal defense, FCPA investigations, private equity, as well as compliance and regulatory matters.
He has represented clients in numerous international arbitrations under the rules of a range of arbitral institutions, including CIETAC, SIAC, ICC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL, as well as in the Hong Kong courts. Yang is a solicitor-advocate of the Hong Kong courts, with full rights of audience. He is also qualified in England and Wales, Singapore and New York.
He is a chartered arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, with appointments (either as sole arbitrator, chair of tribunal, or party-appointed arbitrator) to many panels of the main international arbitral institutions in numerous arbitrations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul. He also takes appointments as arbitrator on panels of the main international arbitral institutions throughout Asia.
“Ing Loong’s international arbitration and litigation knowledge and experience are extremely well thought of in Asia and around the world,” said Akin Gump chairperson Kim Koopersmith. “Together with the recent addition of Graham Lovett and his market-leading disputes practice to our Dubai office, Ing Loong’s arrival provides further exceptional growth for the firm’s international arbitration and disputes practice. He will be a huge benefit to our clients internationally and locally, as well as to the firm as a whole.”
